I Want to Be the King of Football

Boloni walked out of the office of technical director Aurelio Pereira with a complicated expression.

At this moment, he looks like the crops that have just experienced the baptism of the storm, withered.

Just now, in the office behind him, Aurelio expressed concern about his line-up and locker room management in recent times.

Of course, this is a nice way to say, and to put it bluntly, it is dissatisfaction.

Not only Aurelio, but also the media and fans outside were equally dissatisfied.

The most direct and main reason is that in Prague, the Czech capital yesterday, Sporting Lisbon lost to Slavia Prague 1-3 away, which made Sporting Lisbon sentenced to death.

Reversing an opponent is not an easy task.

Boloni's high hopes for Nikulei were misfired in the audience, and he didn't even make much threat. This is the most deadly.

From the post-match press conference, to returning to the airport in Lisbon, to Alcochete's door this morning, countless people are asking him the same question: Why Nikulei? Why not Su Dong?

This makes Boloni amused and novel.

Since when did Su Dong start to compare himself with Nikulei, and even suppress Nikulei?

You must know that Nikulei is a powerful scorer who has scored 20 goals in a single season in the Romanian League. The center introduced at a price of 5 million euros from Sporting Lisbon is well-known throughout European football.

What about Su Dong?

Eighteen years old, just a young teenager just emerging.

Shouldn't such a teenager play more substitutes?

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Boloni walked along the edge of the training ground to the first team training building.

He was thinking about the game yesterday.

Slavia Prague is a team from the Czech Republic. The overall style is similar to that of Romania. Boloni originally hoped that Nikulei could find the familiar feeling of playing in Romania in Slavia Prague.

But it turns out that Nikolai is still in the doldrums.

Boloni did not doubt the strength of his compatriots, but what really surprised him was the performance of Slavia Prague.

The opponent in this game is the Czech coach Miroslav Belanek.

This Czech coach should be rarely heard of, but in European professional football circles, the name is very famous.

He does not have a very brilliant professional resume, and even in the early stage of coaching, he was very unsatisfactory. What really made him famous in the European football coaching circle was in 1998. It took him two years to bring a team one away from the capital Prague. An hour's drive from the small country team, Schmer Bursani, brought to the then Czech First Division.

Why the sensation?

Because there are only 389 people in the village where this team is located, even if the fans in the surrounding villages and towns are added up, it is still less than four figures. What an incredible achievement!

But that alone is not enough to surprise the industry.

In Schmelbursani, Beranek has trained a group of young players so good that in two thousand years, when he left the club to coach the Czech Under-21s, five players in the Czech national youth team came from this country. small country team.

More importantly, in the 2002 European Youth Championship, Belanek led the Czech youth team to win the European Championship.

Among the five young players from Schmerbursani that year, Nemec, Kolar and SMS are now famous Czech players, but the most famous is the current main goal of the Czech national team, Peter Cech. .

The talented Czech goalkeeper who moved to Ligue 1 Rennes for 4 million euros this summer mentioned Beranek in an interview. He said that when he was in Schmerbursani, Beranek Say to him, You're going to be the best goalkeeper in the world.

Subsequently, Cech transferred from the country team to the giants Sparta Prague,

He has created the longest clean sheet record in the Czech domestic league. He has kept a clean sheet for 1,000 minutes in the European Champions Cup.

From this resume, it is not difficult to see that Bellanek's reputation is not particularly loud, but his coaching ability is excellent.

It was no accident that Slavia Prague, under his coach, froze Nikulei firmly in the first leg.

And Boloni doesn't believe in any case, Nikulei can't cut through the defensive dilemma that Bellanek arranged for him, and replacing the eighteen-year-old Su Dong can solve the problem?

Boloni is still very confident in his vision. He believes that so far, Nikulei's strength is still above Su Dong, but it is just because of various factors such as state and self-confidence, it has not been brought into play.

As long as you give Nikulei enough trust and support, I believe that an explosion can be ushered in.

But why does everyone think that Su Dong should replace Nikulei?

Could it be that what Nikulei couldn't do, Su Dong could do?

Boloni doesn't believe it.

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In the living room of an apartment in the Park of Nations, a video of Sporting Lisbon's away game against Slavia Prague is playing on the TV.

Su Dong sat in front of the TV with his legs crossed, watching the game intently. From time to time, he took the pen in his hand and wrote down his observations and some problems that appeared in the game in a notebook.

It was a fiasco.

But even if it is a fiasco, there will be gains.

Not far behind him, José Semedo, Pepe and Tonito waited, bored on their chins.

They don't know, what's the point of watching these game footage over and over again?

Is it more fun than live football?

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Su, after watching it for so long, did you gain anything?

Tonito sat next to Su Dong and asked with concern.

After getting acquainted with Su Dong and others, this kid just moved in and lived there, saving a lot of rent, and turned around to buy a car and acted as a free driver for everyone in this apartment. , take them to the training base every day.

He didn't dare to grab Su Dong or Ronnie's room, but added a bed to Pepe's room.

Not because he was polite, but because Su Dong practiced yoga in the room every day, and Ronnie often sneaked Jordana back for the night, which was not very convenient.

Su Dong turned his attention away from the TV. After looking at Tonito, he boasted, Bellanec is still very strong.

Of course, this is to bring the Czech national youth team to the European Cup.

Nikulei is still in a hurry. He always drills into the penalty area, but he doesn't know that it is the area where the opponent's defense is the most dense. After entering it, he can only get into close combat. This is not a good way.

Tonito nodded, In the locker room at halftime, Boloni also reminded me like this, but the second half still did not improve. I think there is such a possibility that once he leaves the penalty area, Nikulei will not have much. threatened?

Su Dong was stunned for a moment, and he found that it seemed to be the case.

When he was thinking about this issue, he always substituted himself into it involuntarily, but he didn't realize that Nikolai was not Su Dong, Su Dong would know, but Nikolai might not be able to.

Of course, for now, Nikulei is still stronger than Su Dong in lethality and physical confrontation in the penalty area.

But Su Dong wins in all aspects.

Nikolai just found that if he stayed away from the penalty area, not only would the threat of scoring be gone, but the tactical effect would also be greatly weakened, so he knew that the penalty area was a quagmire, but he still had to drill into it again and again.

To be fair, Nikulei also played a role in Quaresma's last goal.

If it were me, I would focus on the outside of the penalty area, pull out more, and connect with the midfielder, there are more options, and I took a look and saw that Slavia Prague's defenders are not high...

At the end, Su Dong smiled mysteriously.

Tonito and Pepe and the others looked at each other, all showing the urge to beat him up.

Normally, a height of about 1.85 meters is considered a mainstream height in European professional football. Many outstanding players are basically in this position, but Su Dong is different. He is as high as 1.95 meters. What is even more frightening is that, His speed and explosiveness are also outstanding, and his foot movements are very flexible, which is too desperate.

With his height and long legs, Su Dong often only needs to use his body to lean on the defender to catch the ball, and the opponent's defender can't grab the ball at all.

In the same way, Nikulei is 1.85 meters tall, not short, but the advantage is not as obvious as Su Dong.

Sometimes things just don't make sense.

What you can't do no matter how hard you try, others can easily achieve.

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At the weekend, in the ninth round of the Portuguese Super League, Sporting Lisbon played away to Guimaraes.

Although it was affected by the fiasco in the midweek away game, the Green Lions were still in high spirits at home.

Only 18 minutes into the game, it was Su Dong and Ronnie again, with a clever cooperation on the edge of the penalty area. After Su Dong opened the defender in the penalty area, he volleyed his right foot vigorously, opening the scoring for Sporting Lisbon.

It was his fifth Portuguese Premier League goal of the season.

After changing sides in the second half, Sporting Lisbon made another round of maddening attacks.

Su Dong played a role as a needle in the frontcourt and center, firmly suppressing the opponent's defender, creating a huge space for the midfielder to plug in. Tonito took Rui one after another in just three minutes. · Jorge and Paulo Bento's passing, staged a brace, two consecutive wins for Sporting Lisbon.

Although Guimaraes pulled back a game later, Sporting Lisbon finally defeated their opponents three to one and retained their position as the league leader.

However, Porto and Benfica have also won this round, especially Benfica, which beat Ferreira 7-0 at home.

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After a week off, the Portuguese Super League ignited the tenth round of war.

But what is surprising is that in the home game against Vicente, Su Dong was not selected for the starting roster, and Nikulei took his place.

Not only that, Boloni also adjusted the team's defense, and Pepe was excluded from the squad.

As a result, Sporting Lisbon conceded the ball in the opening three minutes and another in the 21st minute.

Although Su Dong came on as a substitute in the second half, he failed to reverse the situation and conceded another goal in stoppage time.

0-3, Sporting Lisbon suffered a crushing defeat at home.

As Porto won this round, Sporting Lisbon surrendered the leader's throne.

Boloni explained to the outside world that the purpose of the team rotation is for the UEFA Cup in midweek.